Ron Paul’s point valid
In the most recent Republican presidential debate, the loudest applause of the evening came when Rudy Giuliani rebuked Ron Paul’s suggestion that America’s long-term foreign policy of Middle East intervention might have helped to motivate the 9/11 attacks.
Why is that such a far-fetched idea? Yes, I know it’s nicer to think that in playing our self-appointed role of “global cop,” we are on the side of God and justice. But many people in the world hate us, and it’s not simply because they oppose our money and freedom. Many European countries also enjoy money and freedom yet mind their own business. Why don’t we see more terrorist attacks in those countries?
Randy Braun, Denver
We as a society have entered into a new era of political correctness. It is now considered immoral to criticize our elected officials, unless that elected official is not a member of the GOP. To be considered a real American, one now must agree with President Bush on everything.
While the 3000+ killed on 9/11 certainly didn't deserve to die ( I was as angry as anyone else), we can't ignore facts. Our foreign policy (for good or bad) has everything to do with why many in that part of the world hate us. This would include our support for Israel, our support and interference in Iran under the Shah (who was by far not a democratic leader), and our meddling in other countries' business.
The next time someone asks "why do they hate us?" Think of our history in the area. Again, I'm not saying what was right and wrong-decide that for yourselves. We as a country should quit using the "they hate us because we're free" cop out.
Posted by BO on May 25, 2007 05:09 AMMIDDLE EAST: GOP Plantation
We've seen this before. My fore-fathers were enslaved and brought to this country "to do jobs that whites didn't want to do". They were rewarded for their "free" slave labor by being stripped ofteir native language, religion, customs, and our women-folk were raped and bred like cattle, by plantation masters in their pursuit of Herculean slaves. We were/are their cotton "N word".
Massa Boy-George wants Arabs to be his oil/sand "N word". He is exterminating Iraqis with the intent of stealing their oil and stripping them of their religion and customs. We can thank Falwell, Dobson, Perkins, Grahams (crack-head), Haggard (meth-head), Robertson, Musgarve, and Allard (communist-sider) for the latter.
Posted by jjxant on May 25, 2007 06:38 AMGOP draft-dodgers and "surrender monkeys":
Rudy; Mitt (Mormon Mission-separation of church and state); Boy George felonious UCMJ violator-illegal separation and discharge; Owens (felonious illegal cong. page deferment by Cong. Bush; Mastermind, Cronyn, K. Salazar (prisethood), Boehner, Cheney (too busy to die in NAM), Lott (ole Miss football cheerleader), Allard (communist-sider), Frist, and DeLay. This band of brothers collectively, cut and ran for their mama's dress-tails, when the Vietnam War broke-out. Now they want to establish the criteria for what's un-American activities and define patriotism.
Like them, when Iraq-NAM broke-out, their blood and treasure broke for college, ski-slopes, and shopping malls. This band of brothers have reduced killing folks to a computer war game with their chants of bring'em on, new sheriff in town, come clean, show ya cards, etc. They all should be tried in an international court of law for war crimes, just like we intended for Hitler.
Posted by jjx on May 25, 2007 07:07 AMwhat I found laughable is that the main GOP commentators followed what the MSM lied about..... that Ron Paul said "it was america's fault".... which ron *CLEARLY* did not say, and *CLEARLY* answered "No" to when asked for clarification.
He put forth a *REASON* he felt America was attacked, that simply is NOT equal to "Justification" of the act.
It is painful to see that the *ONLY* Reagan conservative (Ron Paul) is being castigated by his own Party and GOP bloggers.
Posted by rory on May 25, 2007 07:42 AMjixant, jix,
They already have "established the criteria for what's un-American activities and defined patriotism". It's even called the "Patriot Act".
But, they'd a lot rather see us tear each other, and the country, apart squabbling over other issues first, such as immigration, civil rights for gays, abortion, etc. Then, when those they slam as "liberal", "commie", and the like, have been sufficiently "identified", the right wing-nuts can start insinuating that any position that disagrees with theirs is one that stems from "support of terrorism".
And, just as with earlier movements to stifle opposition in favor of a ruling class, the right wing-nuts can act as informers, and denounce their opposition, in order to "protect the country". It's happened before. It was called "McCarthyism" back then. And it's raising its vicious and ugly head again today.
Read some of the material posted by the most vocal and prominent of the supporters of the Iraq war, and the rest of the issues as well. Goebbles would be proud of his current disciples.
Posted by Old Grouch on May 25, 2007 07:57 AMThe following is a list of military actions made by the US since 1980.
President Carter:
1980 -- Iran. Operation Eagle Claw On April 26, 1980, President Carter reported the use of six US transport planes and eight helicopters in an unsuccessful attempt to rescue American hostages being held in Iran.
President Reagan:
1981 -- El Salvador. After a guerrilla offensive against the government of El Salvador, additional US military advisers were sent to El Salvador, bringing the total to approximately 55, to assist in training government forces in counterinsurgency.
1981 --Libya. First Gulf of Sidra Incident On August 19, 1981, US planes based on the carrier USS Nimitz shot down two Libyan jets over the Gulf of Sidra after one of the Libyan jets had fired a heat-seeking missile. The United States periodically held freedom of navigation exercises in the Gulf of Sidra, claimed by Libya as territorial waters but considered international waters by the United States.
1982 -- Sinai. On March 19, 1982, President Reagan reported the deployment of military personnel and equipment to participate in the Multinational Force and Observers in the Sinai. Participation had been authorized by the Multinational Force and Observers Resolution, Public Law 97-132.
1982 -- Lebanon. Multinational Force in Lebanon On August 21, 1982, President Reagan reported the dispatch of 80 marines to serve in the multinational force to assist in the withdrawal of members of the Palestine Liberation force from Beirut. The Marines left September 20, 1982.
1982-1983 -- Lebanon. On September 29, 1982, President Reagan reported the deployment of 1200 marines to serve in a temporary multinational force to facilitate the restoration of Lebanese government sovereignty. On Sept. 29, 1983, Congress passed the Multinational Force in Lebanon Resolution (P.L. 98-119) authorizing the continued participation for eighteen months.
1983 – US Embassy Bombing. Beirut, Lebanon, Suicide Bomber, 63 Killed.
1983 – Marine Barracks Bombing. Beirut, Lebanon, 2 Suicide Bombers, 241 Killed.
1983 -- Egypt. After a Libyan plane bombed a city in Sudan on March 18, 1983, and Sudan and Egypt appealed for assistance, the United States dispatched an AWACS electronic surveillance plane to Egypt.
1983 -- Grenada. Citing the increased threat of Soviet and Cuban influence and noting the development of an international airport following a bloodless Grenada coup d'etat and alignment with the Soviets and Cuba, the U.S. launches Operation Urgent Fury to invade the sovereign island nation of Grenada.
1983-89 -- Honduras. In July 1983 the United States undertook a series of exercises in Honduras that some believed might lead to conflict with Nicaragua. On March 25, 1986, unarmed US military helicopters and crewmen ferried Honduran troops to the Nicaraguan border to repel Nicaraguan troops.
1983 -- Chad. On August 8, 1983, President Reagan reported the deployment of two AWACS electronic surveillance planes and eight F-15 fighter planes and ground logistical support forces to assist Chad against Libyan and rebel forces.
1984 -- Persian Gulf. On June 5, 1984, Saudi Arabian jet fighter planes, aided by intelligence from a US AWACS electronic surveillance aircraft and fueled by a U.S. KC-10 tanker, shot down two Iranian fighter planes over an area of the Persian Gulf proclaimed as a protected zone for shipping.
1985 -- Italy. On October 10, 1985, US Navy pilots intercepted an Egyptian airliner and forced it to land in Sicily. The airliner was carrying the hijackers of the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro who had killed an American citizen during the hijacking.
1986 -- Libya. Libyan Patrol Boats On March 26, 1986, President Reagan reported on March 24 and 25, US forces, while engaged in freedom of navigation exercises around the Gulf of Sidra, had been attacked by Libyan missiles and the United States had responded with missiles.
1986 -- Libya. Operation El Dorado Canyon On April 16, 1986, President Reagan reported that U.S. air and naval forces had conducted bombing strikes on terrorist facilities and military installations in the Libyan capitol of Tripoli, claiming that Colonel Qadhafi, who had ousted oil-friendly King Idris, was responsible for a bomb attack at a German disco that killed two U.S. soldiers.
1986 -- Bolivia. U.S. Army personnel and aircraft assisted Bolivia in anti-drug operations.
1987-88 -- Persian Gulf. After the Iran-Iraq War resulted in several military incidents in the Persian Gulf, the United States increased US joint military forces operations in the Persian Gulf and adopted a policy of reflagging and escorting Kuwaiti oil tankers through the Gulf, called Operation Earnest Will. President Reagan reported that US ships had been fired upon or struck mines or taken other military action on September 21 (Iran Ajr), October 8, and October 19, 1987 and April 18 (Operation Praying Mantis), July 3, and July 14, 1988. The United States gradually reduced its forces after a cease-fire between Iran and Iraq on August 20, 1988.
1987-88 -- Operation Earnest Will was the U.S. military protection of Kuwaiti oil tankers from Iraqi and Iranian attacks in 1987 and 1988 during the Tanker War phase of the Iran-Iraq War. It was the largest naval convoy operation since World War II.
1987-88 -- Operation Prime Chance was a United States Special Operations Command operation intended to protect U.S.-flagged oil tankers from Iranian attack during the Iran-Iraq War. The operation took place roughly at the same time as Operation Earnest Will.
President Bush:
1988 -- Operation Praying Mantis was was the April 18, 1988 action waged by U.S. naval forces in retaliation for the Iranian mining of the Persian Gulf and the subsequent damage to an American warship.
1988 -- Operation Golden Pheasant was an emergency deployment of U.S. troops to Honduras in 1988, as a result of threatening actions by the forces of the (then socialist) Nicaraguans.
1988 -- USS Vincennes shoot down of Iran Air Flight 655
1988 -- Panama. Operation Just Cause In mid-March and April 1988, during a period of instability in Panama and as the United States increased pressure on Panamanian head of state General Manuel Noriega to resign, the United States sent 1,000 troops to Panama, to "further safeguard the canal, US lives, property and interests in the area." The forces supplemented 10,000 US military personnel already in the Panama Canal Zone.
1989 -- Libya. Second Gulf of Sidra Incident On January 4, 1989, two US Navy F-14 aircraft based on the USS John F. Kennedy shot down two Libyan jet fighters over the Mediterranean Sea about 70 miles north of Libya. The US pilots said the Libyan planes had demonstrated hostile intentions.
1989 -- Panama. On May 11, 1989, in response to General Noriega's disregard of the results of the Panamanian election, President Bush ordered a brigade-sized force of approximately 1,900 troops to augment the estimated 11,000 U.S. forces already in the area.
1989 -- Colombia, Bolivia, and Peru. Andean Initiative in War on Drugs. On September 15, 1989, President Bush announced that military and law enforcement assistance would be sent to help the Andean nations of Colombia, Bolivia, and Peru combat illicit drug producers and traffickers. By mid-September there were 50-100 US military advisers in Colombia in connection with transport and training in the use of military equipment, plus seven Special Forces teams of 2-12 persons to train troops in the three countries.
1989 -- Philippines. On December 2, 1989, President Bush reported that on December 1 US fighter planes from Clark Air Base in the Philippines had assisted the Aquino government to repel a coup attempt. In addition, 100 marines were sent from the US Navy base at Subic Bay to protect the US Embassy in Manila.
1989-90 -- Panama. Operation Just Cause On December 21, 1989, the U.S. invades the sovereign nation of Panama to "further safeguard the canal, US lives, property and interests in the area." Several thousand Panamanian civilians are killed. The Panamanian head of state, General Manuel Noriega, is captured and brought to the U.S. By February 13, 1990, all the invasion forces had been withdrawn.
1990 -- Liberia. On August 6, 1990, President Bush reported that a reinforced rifle company had been sent to provide additional security to the US Embassy in Monrovia, and that helicopter teams had evacuated US citizens from Liberia.
1990 -- Saudi Arabia. On August 9, 1990, President Bush reported that he had ordered the forward deployment of substantial elements of the US armed forces into the Persian Gulf region to help defend Saudi Arabia after the August 2 invasion of Kuwait by Iraq. On November 16, 1990, he reported the continued buildup of the forces to ensure an adequate offensive military option.
1991 -- Iraq. Persian Gulf War On January 16 America attacked Iraqi forces and military targets in Iraq and Kuwait, in conjunction with a coalition of allies and UN Security Council resolutions. Combat operations ended on February 28, 1991. (See Operation Desert Shield and Operation Desert Storm)
1991 -- Iraq. On May 17, 1991, President Bush stated that the Iraqi repression of the Kurdish people had necessitated a limited introduction of US forces into northern Iraq for emergency relief purposes.
1991 -- Zaire. On September 25-27, 1991, after widespread looting and rioting broke out in Kinshasa, US Air Force C-141s transported 100 Belgian troops and equipment into Kinshasa. US planes also carried 300 French troops into the Central African Republic and hauled evacuated American citizens.
1991-96 -- Operation Provide Comfort. Delivery of humanitarian relief and military protection for Kurds fleeing their homes in northern Iraq, by a small Allied ground force based in Turkey.
1992 -- Sierra Leone. On May 3, 1992, US military planes evacuated Americans from Sierra Leone, where military leaders had overthrown the government.
1992 -- Kuwait. On August 3, 1992, the United States began a series of military exercises in Kuwait, following Iraqi refusal to recognize a new border drawn up by the United Nations and refusal to cooperate with UN inspection teams.
1992-2003 -- Iraq. Iraqi No-Fly Zones The U.S. together with the United Kingdom declares and enforces "no fly zones" over the majority of sovereign Iraqi airspace, prohibiting Iraqi flights in zones in southern Iraq and northern Iraq, and conducting aerial reconnaissance and bombings.
1992-95 -- Somalia. "Operation Restore Hope" Somali Civil War On December 10, 1992, President Bush reported that he had deployed US armed forces to Somalia in response to a humanitarian crisis and a UN Security Council Resolution. The operation came to an end on May 4, 1993. US forces continued to participate in the successor United Nations Operation in Somalia (UNOSOM II).
President Clinton:
1993 – World Trade Center Bombing. New York, 6 killed, 1,042 injured.
1993-Present -- Bosnia-Herzegovina.
1993 -- Macedonia. On July 9, 1993, President Clinton reported the deployment of 350 US soldiers to the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia to participate in the UN Protection Force to help maintain stability in the area of former Yugoslavia.
1993-95 -- Haiti. Operation Uphold Democracy US ships had begun embargo against Haiti. Up to 20,000 US military troops were later deployed to Haiti.
1994 -- Macedonia. On April 19, 1994, President Clinton reported that the US contingent in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia had been increased by a reinforced company of 200 personnel.
1995 – Oklahoma City Bombing. Oklahoma City, 168 killed, 800 injured.
1995 -- Bosnia. NATO bombing of Bosnian Serbs.
1996 -- Liberia. On April 11, 1996, President Clinton reported that on April 9, 1996 due to the "deterioration of the security situation and the resulting threat to American citizens" in Liberia he had ordered US military forces to evacuate from that country "private US citizens and certain third-country nationals who had taken refuge in the US Embassy compound...."
1996 -- Central African Republic. On May 23, 1996, President Clinton reported the deployment of US military personnel to Bangui, Central African Republic, to conduct the evacuation from that country of "private US citizens and certain U.S. Government employees," and to provide "enhanced security for the American Embassy in Bangui."
1997 -- Albania. On March 13, 1997, US military forces were used to evacuate certain U.S. Government employees and private US citizens from Tirana, Albania.
1997 -- Congo and Gabon. On March 27, 1997, President Clinton reported on March 25, 1997, a standby evacuation force of US military personnel had been deployed to Congo and Gabon to provide enhanced security and to be available for any necessary evacuation operation.
1997 -- Sierra Leone. On May 29 and May 30, 1997, US military personnel were deployed to Freetown, Sierra Leone, to prepare for and undertake the evacuation of certain US government employees and private US citizens.
1997 -- Cambodia. On July 11, 1997, In an effort to ensure the security of American citizens in Cambodia during a period of domestic conflict there, a Task Force of about 550 US military personnel were deployed at Utapao Air Base in Thailand for possible evacuations.
1998 -- Iraq. US-led bombing campaign against Iraq.
1998 -- Guinea-Bissau. On June 10, 1998, in response to an army mutiny in Guinea-Bissau endangering the US Embassy, President Clinton deployed a standby evacuation force of US military personnel to Dakar, Senegal, to evacuate from the city of Bissau.
1998 – U.S. Embassy Bombings. Tanzania and Kenya, 225 killed, 4000 injured.
1998 - 1999 Kenya and Tanzania. US military personnel were deployed to Nairobi, Kenya, to coordinate the medical and disaster assistance related to the bombings of the U.S. Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.
1998 -- Afghanistan and Sudan. Operation Infinite Reach On August 20th, air strikes were used against two suspected terrorist training camps in Afghanistan and a suspected chemical factory in Sudan.
1998 -- Liberia. On September 27, 1998 America deployed a stand-by response and evacuation force of 30 US military personnel to increase the security force at the US Embassy in Monrovia.
1999 - 2001 East Timor. East Timor Independence Limited number of US military forces deployed with UN to restore peace to East Timor.
1999 -- NATO's bombing of Serbia in the Kosovo Conflict.
2000 -- Sierra Leone. On May 12, 2000, President Clinton reported that he had ordered a US Navy patrol craft to deploy to Sierra Leone to be ready to support evacuation operations from that country if needed.
2000 – USS Cole Bombing. Yemen, 17 killed, 39 injured.
2000 -- Yemen. On October 14, 2000, President Clinton reported that on October 12, 2000, in the wake of an attack on the USS Cole in the port of Aden, Yemen, he had authorized deployment of military personnel to Aden.
President Bush:
2001 – September 11 Attack. 2,974 killed.
2001 -- Afghanistan. US invasion of Afghanistan. The War on Terrorism begins with Operation Enduring Freedom. On October 7, 2001, US Armed Forces "began combat action in Afghanistan against Al Qaida terrorists and their Taliban supporters."
2002 -- Yemen. On November 3, 2002, an American RQ-1 Predator fired a Hellfire missile at a car in Yemen killing Qaed Senyan al-Harthi, an al-Qaeda leader thought to be responsible for the USS Cole bombing.
2002 -- Philippines. At the Philippine Government's invitation, the President had ordered deployed "combat-equipped and combat support forces to train with, advise, and assist" the Philippines' Armed Forces in enhancing their "existing counterterrorist capabilities."
2002 -- Cote d'Ivoire. On September 25, 2002, in response to a rebellion in Cote d'Ivoire, US military personnel went into Cote d'Ivoire to assist in the evacuation of American citizens from Bouake.
2003 -- 2003 invasion of Iraq Second Persian Gulf War. March 20, 2003. The United States leads a coalition that includes Britain, to invade Iraq with the stated goal of eliminating Iraqi weapons of mass destruction.
2003 -- Liberia. Second Liberian Civil War On June 9, 2003, President Bush reported that on June 8 he had sent about 35 combat-equipped US military personnel into Monrovia, Liberia, to help secure the US Embassy in Nouakchott, Mauritania, and to aid in any necessary evacuation from either Liberia or Mauritania.
2003 -- Georgia and Djibouti "US combat equipped and support forces" had been deployed to Georgia and Djibouti to help in enhancing their "counterterrorist capabilities."
2004 -- 2004 Haïti rebellion occurs. US-backed rebel leaders gain control of Haiti, ousting the government of democratically-elected, populist priest Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
2004 -- "War on Terrorism": US "anti-terror" related activities were underway in Georgia, Djibouti, Kenya, Ethiopia, Yemen, and Eritrea.
2006 -- Pakistan. 17 people including known Al Qaeda bomb maker and chemical weapons expert Midhat Mursi, were killed in an American RQ-1 Predator airstrike on Damadola (Pakistan), near the Afghan border.
2006 -- Lebanon. US Marine Detachment begins evacuation of US citizens willing to the leave the country in the face of a likely ground invasion by Israel and continued fighting between Hezbollah and the Israeli military, see 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict
2007 -- Somalia. Battle of Ras Kamboni. On January 8, 2007, while the conflict between the Islamic Courts Union and the Transitional Federal Government continues, an AC-130 gunship conducts an aerial strike on a suspected Al-Qaeda operative, along with other Islamist fighters, on Badmadow Island near Ras Kamboni in southern Somalia
yep we are evil here in the USA and for all who believe it please go to one of the more peaceful nations. you will enjoy it much more and not have to worry about how evil we are here.
your life will be much better for leaving and I wish you much happiness where ever you chose to run to.
need help packing?
The reason we were attacked is simple: we are not Muslims and we as a nation reject Islam as a political system and Sharia law. Period.
Posted by Liam on May 25, 2007 08:48 AMRon Paul is the best, last chance to change the status quo. He is a Republican in registration, but more of a libertarian in practice. He is the only candidate who wants the Constitution to rule our actions. He is the only candidate who a true conservative would vote for. I do not agree with all his positions, but the ones that are most important, are the ones I agree with. Don't be a global cop. Don't get into international entanglements and treaties. Don't try to push out version of living on other countries, especially muslim countries. Do go back to the rule of Constitutional law. Read his biography. He is a good man. The republicans want to cut his head off because they know he is real, and they are unable to defeat his honesty and his true conservatism. Shake the world. Vote for Ron Paul for President in 2008. Republicans, demand that he remain on the debates and contact your precinct administrators and tell them he is your man. If he doesn't get the Republican nonination, what you have had for the past 14 years from the 2 party clowns will only continue, and get worse.
Here is the proposed immigration/amnesty bill.
http://www.heritage.org/research/immigration/im62007.cfm
Posted by Jay on May 25, 2007 09:29 AMWay to go Liam, your regurgitating of the neocon reasons, show you are well indoctrinated in the school of American Exceptionalism.
Believing that America is the only country that can bring freedom to the world and that capitalism will take care of all the worlds problems sure makes one comfortable in their own mind.
America = GOOD
Islam = EVIL
A formula for perpetual war for perpetual peace
Ignorance is strength
Freedom is slavery
War is Peace
Big Brother is watching you
Holy Reality - I never said anything about America, and I am no neocon.
Islam is the new Nazism. And yes, it is evil.
See: www.thereligionofpeace.com
Read "the Politically incorrect guide to Islam"
Posted by Liam on May 25, 2007 10:00 AMThe first rule for campaigns is to never tell the truth, the voters want to be lied to, and telling the truth will immediately send you to the bottom of the polls.
Ask Kucinich.
Posted by Holy Reality on May 25, 2007 10:04 AMTwo points I would like to make here: "terrorism" is a stupid persons' euphemism for "asymmetric warfare". Second, according to the laws of physics, every action has an equal and opposite reaction.
Combining those two points, If any country in the world thinks that they can go outside of their geographic boundaries and instigate any action, and then believe that there will be no reaction, then that country is deluded.
Summing my thesis, the United States cannot defy the laws of physics by fighting euphemisms. We have GOT to change course. Ron Paul is acknowledging that fact.
mike h - "terrorism" is the PC person's euphemism for "Islam." Are we fighting the McVeigh Mob? The Baader-Meinhof Gang? The Simbionese Liberation Army? Red Brigades? f course not.
Posted by Liam on May 25, 2007 10:15 AMLiam, "Ia am NOT in DENIAL"
Posted by Holy Reality on May 25, 2007 10:22 AMIt's always Americas fault with you guys.
Mistakes have been made throughout our history but on balance we have been responsible for some of the greatest achievements this world has ever seen.
LOVE IT OR LEAVE IT !
Posted by Get Real on May 25, 2007 10:36 AMHoly Reality - ?? Who said anything about denial??
Posted by Liam on May 25, 2007 10:44 AMOn the topic raised by the letter writer, I saw this charaterization of his position in the news yesterday:
[Paul’s] “contention that attacks by Islamic militants are fueled by the U.S. presence in the Middle East.”
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070524/pl_nm/usa_politics_paul_dc
Funny, isn't that pretty much what Ward Churchill said in his infamous essay?
Posted by anderson on May 25, 2007 10:45 AMI thought churchills rant was more about the excesses of capitalism.
Posted by Tbone on May 25, 2007 11:16 AMI thought churchills rant was more about the excesses of capitalism.
Posted by Tbone on May 25, 2007 11:16 AMIt probably was. But whatever you ascribe as the underlying cause (and Paul won't even go there), Churchill's theme that "the chickens are coming home to roost"-is just another way of saying what Paul is saying--that Islamic terrorism is in part a consquence of U.S. action.
Posted by anderson on May 25, 2007 11:26 AM"Yes, I know it’s nicer to think that in playing our self-appointed role of “global cop,” we are on the side of God and justice," says Randy Braun, letter writer.
Yes! America is on the side of God and justice evidenced in Manifest Destiny when God mandated the genocide of the Indian as it plowed westward and now Manifest Destiny tells Bush march eastward and appropriate Allah land, a false god.
Manifest Destiny: God's Mass exploitation policy attainable as with Moses: Kill all of them but the virgins keep for yourselves saving a few as tribute to the Almighty.
Posted by RG: Risen Ape Member of the deicide r22037@yahoo.com on May 25, 2007 11:43 AMGet Real,
"It's always Americas fault with you guys."
Why do people like you always come out with these tired, idiotic slogans? I looked through all the posts & couldn't find any liberals who were "blaming America." What we are finding "fault" with are the idiotic, thoughtless policies of this administration & this useless president (jimmy Carter was right) - policies that are needlessly draining & depleting our armed forces & putting us further in hoc to the Chinese & Japanese every month.
America certainly needs defending - from terrorists and from Bush & his cronies. So if you want to find out whose "fault" it is, go look in the mirror - because you apparently voted for him.
Posted by drew on May 25, 2007 12:04 PMDrew said:
"I looked through all the posts & couldn't find any liberals who were "blaming America."
You must have missed these gems:
"The next time someone asks "why do they hate us?" Think of our history in the area." -- BO
"Massa Boy-George wants Arabs to be his oil/sand "N word". He is exterminating Iraqis with the intent of stealing their oil and stripping them of their religion and customs." -- jjxant
"This band of brothers [Bush & Co.] have reduced killing folks to a computer war game with their chants of bring'em on, new sheriff in town, come clean, show ya cards, etc. They all should be tried in an international court of law for war crimes, just like we intended for Hitler." -- jjx
"The following is a list of military actions made by the US since 1980." -- Frank, in an attempt to explain why we're hated by Muslims.
"Combining those two points, If any country in the world thinks that they can go outside of their geographic boundaries and instigate any action, and then believe that there will be no reaction, then that country is deluded." -- mike h.
"But whatever you ascribe as the underlying cause (and Paul won't even go there), Churchill's theme that "the chickens are coming home to roost"-is just another way of saying what Paul is saying--that Islamic terrorism is in part a consquence of U.S. action." -- anderson
"Yes! America is on the side of God and justice evidenced in Manifest Destiny when God mandated the genocide of the Indian as it plowed westward and now Manifest Destiny tells Bush march eastward and appropriate Allah land, a false god." -- Risen Ape
Posted by John II on May 25, 2007 12:28 PMFrank,
You said:
"1980 -- Iran. Operation Eagle Claw On April 26, 1980, President Carter reported the use of six US transport planes and eight helicopters in an unsuccessful attempt to rescue American hostages being held in Iran."
Why were American hostages being held in Iran?
Posted by John II on May 25, 2007 12:34 PMJohn II - If I had wanted to say it was to explain why we're hated by Muslims I would have stated that. I simply provided a list of actions by our country around the world in the last 27 years. If I had wanted to aim it toward the Muslims I would have edited out a lot of it. Please do not put words into my mouth that I did not say. If it is your opinion of what I say then have the guts to say it is your opinion.
Posted by Frank on May 25, 2007 12:39 PMFor the CIA starting a coup against their democratically elected predident Mossadegh, and installing the fascist dictator shah.
How stupid are you?
Posted by Repugnants are liars on May 25, 2007 12:40 PMDrew, "blame America" is the same sort of rhetoric as "they just hate Bush". If you can reduce complex issues into simple bromides, easily swallowed by compliant consumers, then competing arguments are flattened, nuance is ignored, incongruities become congruous, and it gets down to the basic proposition that it's us v. them, or as someone mentioned, good v. evil, and thus, which "side" are you on?
Posted by anderson on May 25, 2007 12:41 PMFrank,
I apologize for assuming the meaning of your post. May I ask what your true purpose was for posting that exhaustive list of military engagements in the last 27 years?
Posted by John II on May 25, 2007 12:42 PMJohn II,
thanks for proving my point - the vast majority of those "gems" blame Bush and boneheaded Republican adventurism in the Middle East. Bush/wingnut is not the same as "America." You don't seem to get it, do you?
Anderson - you're spot on - reducing "complex issues into simple bromides" is the wingnut stock in trade. they can't see anything unless it's very simple & in easy-to-read black & white.
Posted by drew on May 25, 2007 01:08 PMJohn II - Purpose was simple. Mr. Paul says that the Muslims in the Mid-East attacked us because of our policy toward them. The list I provided is just the military actions we as a country have taken in the past 27 years. Does not include economic policy or covert policy actions taken. The Muslims are not treated any different than any one else we deal with.
Posted by Frank on May 25, 2007 01:22 PM"the vast majority of those "gems" blame Bush and boneheaded Republican adventurism in the Middle East."
All of those gems look internally rather than externally for the reason behind terrorism.
Posted by John II on May 25, 2007 01:22 PMFrank,
So, you did post those military events to explain why we are hated. What kind of game are you playing, Frank?
Posted by John II on May 25, 2007 01:29 PMWow, lots of comments from everyone. I admit, I just skimmed them, but I think the original letter was totally off base as it is. Terrorist attacks in the US, or on US soil are minimal at best, almost non-existent at worst.
In 2005 there were 10,000 terror attacks, with about half in Iraq. Should we take away those attacks, that still leaves more than 4500 terrorist attacks across the World. ZERO in the United States. (source:http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12430800/)
When we actually base our opinions in fact, we get a much clearer picture than when we go "on our feelings." As the United States is the lone Superpower, the request and sometimes demand for aid and assistance not only makes sense, but is our obligation. Kuwait, Grenada, Bosnia, Egypt, Philippines, all of these States asked for assistance either directly or through NATO treaties.
It is these same people that state that the United States has no business in a civil war, but are BEGGING for help in Darfur, which is a CIVIL WAR!!
People, I BEG you, no I implore you to PLEASE try and have an open mind. Don't just research US news, but read British news, read Al-Jazeera, to see what the terrorists are actually saying. It is fascinating to learn the reasons behind these attacks. It is not because of the military complex in the US, but because of the Western CULTURE and the freedoms we posses. That is why people hate us. The French can dislike our attitude (as we do theirs at times), but in the end, if they needed help they would call on the US. As would the rest of the West, because of who we are.
Both sides of the political spectrum need to stop listening only to "your" side and explore what the others are saying if we ever really do want to understand, and to solve problems.
Posted by Dan2 on May 25, 2007 01:45 PMDrew,
I probably bored you with my post, but I did include a researched opinion this time right? -haha
I sometimes do enjoy reading the "fired up" postings from the partisans, but it does make me sad at times too. Such selective memory on both sides of the spectrum.
Although my favorite quote so far (not on the board but in the last week or so) was from Jimmy Carter of all people stating the the Bush Administration was the worst in history. Pretty ballsy from a guy that couldn't get re-elected, had the highest inflation since the Great Depression (and the only peacetime rise in inflation in the history of the US), and whose domestic policies led to a rise in unemployment for the first time in nearly a decade (http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/1984/02/art5full.pdf), not to mention gas lines, hostages in Iran, and the invasion of Afghanistan by the Soviets with no response. All in 4 years. Like I said, pretty ballsy.
Posted by Dan2 on May 25, 2007 02:02 PMDan2
One thing you never do is bore me - however I have to disagree with your characterization of Darfur as a CIVIL WAR - civil war implies a fair degree of equity between 2 or more armed factions - the reason why many people want the US to get involved is because the UN has characterized this as a GENOCIDE not CIVIL WAR - ie civilians in that province are being massacred by government-backed militias - there's a difference, no?
And your characterization of Jimmy Carter as a failed one-termer is a little unfair - you seem to suggest that gas lines inflation, etc were Carter's fault - when Carter was stuck with a geopolitical/economic situation that wasn't of his making.
On the other hand, Bush with his total bungling of the situation in the Middle East has stuck us with a war that seems without end, huge deficits, an overstretched military and ill will towards the US on a scale never seen before. So Carter bungled the Iran hostage situation, but all things considered I think that his characterization of Buh & co is spot on.
Posted by Drew on May 25, 2007 02:48 PM"All of those gems look internally rather than externally for the reason behind terrorism."
So John II what are the "external reasons" they hate us? And please don't tell me they "hate us for our freedom" or another nonsensical bumper sticker slogan. If that's the case then why don't they hate Norway and Ireland just as much as us?
Posted by Drew on May 25, 2007 02:54 PMTrust me, I hate the "they hate us for our freedom" slogan just as much as you.
I also hate the term "global war on terrorism". We say war on terrorism because war on Islam is politicaly incorrect.
This is a clash of cultures that has been going on for hundreds of years. The Muslims have discovered a new war tactic called terrorism. But, one of the first wars we fought, albeit a limited war, was against the Muslims in Tripoli.
As for why they don't hate Norway and Ireland, I don't know that they don't. But, the US is a symbol of the Western world. It would be hard to rally the jihadists to die for a fight against tiny Ireland. Tell them you're going after the biggest, baddest, most powerful country in the world, the symbol of Western freedom and capitalism, and now you've got a cause people will die for.
Posted by John II on May 25, 2007 04:05 PMDrew-
They do hate Norway.
http://fjordman.blogspot.com/2005/03/swedish-muslims-call-for-terror.html
Whether you believe it or not,they DO hate democracies and the freedoms they bring.
Posted by Get Real on May 25, 2007 04:09 PMJohn II & Get Real
No one is disputing the fact that "they" hate the west. However, to ignore the fact that our occupation of Iraq hasn't made this hatred exponentially worse & has been a huge recruiting tool for nutcase fanatics is very shortsighted at best.
They also - rightly or wrongly - hate us for supporting Israel.
There are concrete policies and actions that drive and have driven this hatred - they don't just hate the west because it's there and isn't Muslim.
Posted by drew on May 25, 2007 04:20 PMdrew,
"However, to ignore the fact that our occupation of Iraq hasn't made this hatred exponentially worse & has been a huge recruiting tool for nutcase fanatics is very shortsighted at best."
I never ignored that. Of course they're mad that we're there. Of course, they are instituting their own form of the draft to fight us. So what? That's what war is; each side mobilizes to destroy the other. Of course, they hate us for supporting Israel. Is Israel not a democracy worth supporting? I fully expect them to hate us more now that we're fighting them. I don't care if they hate us, I only care that they are rendered impotent.
Posted by John II on May 25, 2007 05:57 PMWhat goes around comes around. You reap what you sow and if you live by the sword you die by the sword.
America is not hated because we are free and pure and good and went to bed on 9/10/01 minding our own business. When you throw your weight around to the extent that America does, you are guaranteed to have a lot of folks hating on you.
Remember George Orwell's words: "During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. "
Great letter!
Posted by Douglas F. Newman on May 25, 2007 10:54 PMIt's a common mistake, John II. A lot of people who don't think things through make it. It's about the word "they". You say of course "they" hate us. What you fail to note is who "they" is.
Thanks to President Bush, "they", the people who want to attack us, the suicide bombers and their handlers, are much more numerous than ever before. It's not a good idea to serve as the enemy's main recruiting tool, to increase the number of people who hate us by destroying one of their countries on the base of misinformation.
Thanks to President Bush, in addition to "they" who embrace terrorism, more and more "They" are people who do not embrace suicide bombing and the killing of innocent people. "They" more and more are people who were or would have been our friends if it were not for the Bush policies of destroying a Muslim country on the basis of misinformation.
I don't know if you are a bigot or not, but one of the main tools of bigotry is to engage in irrational extrapolation. To pretend that the enemy is not only the enemy but anyone who speaks the same language, has the same color, or looks like those who are the enemy. The word "they" is often employed by them.
"I don't care if they hate us, I only care that they are rendered impotent."
What an infantile statement! It could come only from a fringe extremist. From a person who has little regard for the lives of our military. Despite Bush's policies, many in our military are doing what they can to make the people over there like us. We are spending billions of dollars for the avowed purpose of winning hearts and minds, although under Bush's policies most of the money goes for corruption. I can imagine General Petreaus having a fit if someone were to voice you views to him. He and everybody but you realize that we cannot win military, that we have to win their hearts and minds, not their hatred.
There aren't any liberals, there aren't any conservatives, and there aren't any libertarians who adopt the asinine view that they don't care if the Muslims hate us. So where does that leave you? A lonely voice with whom nobody agrees.
Posted by Truth on May 26, 2007 05:56 AMTruth,
It would appear that John II now has an ally, in the writer of the letter immediately above yours. "Libertarian" seems to be the kind of "label" that includes, as well as covers, a multitude of . . . . Perhaps your description, "fringe extremist" says it best.
Your posting above is certainly one of the best reasoned, and well thought out, of those I've seen for a long time. Excellent work; and I hope you will continue to be with us for a long time to come.
Posted by Old Grouch on May 26, 2007 08:05 AM"Thanks to President Bush, "they", the people who want to attack us, the suicide bombers and their handlers, are much more numerous than ever before."
It's a war. Both sides mobilize to defeat the other. Are you suggesting that we never engage in a war where the enemy will mobilize it's own troops to fight us?
"It's not a good idea to serve as the enemy's main recruiting tool, to increase the number of people who hate us by destroying one of their countries on the base of misinformation."
How could we ever engage in a war against anyone and not be the enemy's recruiting tool? That's like telling a boxer not to fight anyone who will punch back.
"To pretend that the enemy is not only the enemy but anyone who speaks the same language, has the same color, or looks like those who are the enemy. The word "they" is often employed by them."
I never said anything about language, race or appearance. If I cannot refer to the enemy as "they", then what would you prefer I say. You told me a few days ago that I couldn't refer to you as "you". So, I can't say "they" and I can't say "you". Any other words you'd like to ban from my vocabulary?
"Despite Bush's policies, many in our military are doing what they can to make the people over there like us."
I don't want our military to worry about being liked. I want our military to concentrate on killing the enemy. Let the politicians worry about being liked. I realize in today's warped sensitivities that must seem like a radical and "infantile" statement. I guess I'm a bit old-fashioned.
Posted by John II on May 26, 2007 08:11 AMGet Real..........
"LOVE IT OR LEAVE IT"
yeah, right, that makes as much sense as "THEY HATE US FOR OUR FREEDOM"
Can't you Cons come up with more original material?
Oh, that's right....NO, Sheep don't think, they only bleat and repeat.
How about this? "IMPEACHMENT IS TOO GOOD FOR THEM, IT"S TIME TO TRY, CONVICT, and HANG THE BASTARDS."
Bush and Company have caused too much bloodshed in the name of Opperation Iraqi Liberation...(OIL)
Ah, the open call for the hanging of Mr. Bush. And Truth calls me the fringe extremist.
Posted by John II on May 26, 2007 09:13 AMdmz
Right on target (so to speak) but a firing squad would be much more appropriate. With depleted uranium rounds.
These guys Bush and Cheney)are war criminals, and should be treated as such.
The "fringe extremists" at both ends are very well represented throughout the forum. What's so unusual about that?
Posted by Old Grouch on May 26, 2007 11:32 AMThere are many things I love about Colorado. One of the few unpleasant aspects I've found, however, is the plethora of extremists who are here--of the like I never saw growing up in the Midwest. In the old days state advocates called for gold rushers. Today, it's like there's an advertisement out there, saying: "If you're into 'extreme', and want to find like-minded extremists, come to Colorado".
Posted by anderson on May 26, 2007 12:03 PMdmz-
Who do you think you're kidding?
We are talking about people who want to SAW YOU AND YOUR FAMILIES HEADS OFF and you misdirect the conversation to IMPEACH BUSH?
Anderson-
I myself am a midwest boy (Dubuque, Iowa) and have lived out here going on a dozen years now.
What I have witnessed is this whole state turning into the likes of California-
Liberalism run amuck.
The "extremists" you talk of are your brethren.
You and yours are the problem.
John II-
Keep up the fight!
Posted by Get Real on May 26, 2007 11:33 PMFrank-
Can I play too?
11th-18th century
11th century, Middle East : The Hasaniyyin, followers of Hasan-i Sabbah, formed a radical group that murdered important enemies. The group is more widely known by the derogatory name of Hashshashin, i.e. partakers of hashish. Many say that their name is the source for the word 'assassin'.[1]
November 5, 1605: The Gunpowder Plot, an attempt to assassinate the members of the British Parliament along with King James I by destroying the Palace of Westminster with explosives. It was discovered and put down before the plan was executed.
[edit] 19th century
1831: Jan van Speyk detonates his own ship in the harbour of Antwerp.
1840: Benjamin Lett destroys a monument to British general Sir Isaac Brock
1856, 1858, 1859: raids by John Brown in his fight against slavery.
1863: Morgan's Raid led by John Hunt Morgan
1865: John Wilkes Booth assassinates President Lincoln during a comedy at a theatre in Washington D.C.
1868: The Ku Klux Klan in Georgia engage in many acts including whipping of black women and assassination of Republican Party members. It is impossible to untangle local vigilante violence from political terrorism by the organized Klan, but it is clear that attacks on blacks became common during 1868. The Freedmen's Bureau agents reported 336 cases of murder or assault with intent to kill on freedmen across the state from January 1 through November 15. In the next three years Black churches and schools were burned, teachers were attacked, and freed people who refused to show "proper" deference were beaten and killed.[2]
1868: Attempted assassination of Prince Alfred in Sydney, Australia
The Fenian Brotherhood attacked Canadian targets in order to bring pressure on Britain to withdraw from Ireland
1881: Tzar Alexander II of Russia is assassinated by a People's Will (Narodnaya volya) terrorist.
1886: Bomb at Haymarket Square, Chicago during a labor rally kills twelve people.
1891 May 11: Assassination attempt on Nicholas II of Russia by a Japanese police officer named Tsuda Sanzo.
1894: Explosion at the Royal Greenwich Observatory in London. The bomb goes off prematurely, killing only the bomber.
[edit] 1900s-1940s
The Wall Street Bombing 1901 September 6: American President William McKinley is assassinated by anarchist Leon Czolgosz.
1904 May 18: Ion Perdicaris and Cromwell Varley kidnapped and ransomed by bandit Mulai Ahmed er Raisuli in Morocco.
1904 June 16: Governor-General Nikolai Ivanovich Bobrikov is assassinated in Senate House in Helsinki by Finnish nationalist Eugen Schauman.
1909 October 26: Assassination of Japanese Prime Minister Ito Hirobumi by Korean independence activist An Jung-geun.
1910 October 1: A bomb at the Los Angeles Times newspaper building in Los Angeles, California, United States, killed 21 workers.
1914 June 28: Assassination in Sarajevo of Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria and his wife, precipitating World War I.
1915 January 1: Battle of Broken Hill - Turkish nationalists shoot at civilians in the Australian town, killing six.
1920 September 16: Wall Street Bombing kills 38 people and wounds 300 others.
1925 April 16: St Nedelya Church assault kills 150 people, mostly high-ranked individuals, and wounds 500 in the Bulgarian capital Sofia
1927: The Ku Klux Klan launch a wave of political terror in Alabama.
1929: Palestinian civilians and policemen murder 67 Jews in Hebron, Palestine. The Hebron Massacre took place 18 years before Israel's independence.
1933 October 10: A Boeing 247 is destroyed in midflight by a nitroglycerin bomb. All seven people aboard are killed. This incident is the first proven case of air sabotage in the history of aviation.
1934 October 9: Assassination of King Alexander I of Yugoslavia and French Foreign Minister Louis Barthou in Marseille by Ustashas and IMRO
1940 - 1956 George Metesky, "the Mad Bomber" placed over 30 bombs in New York City in public places such as Grand Central Station and The Paramount Theatere injuring ten during this period in protest of the local electric utility. He also sent many threatening letters.
1946 July 22: Bombing of King David Hotel, the British Military HQ in Jerusalem, by the Zionist group Irgun, with 91 deaths - a mix of military and civilian
1948 January 30: Mahatma Gandhi is assassinated by Nathuram Godse
1948 September 17: Assassination of Count Folke Bernadotte, United Nations mediator in Palestine, and his aide by the Stern Gang
[edit] 1950s
During this and the next decade The Ku Klux Klan re-emerges. Some of the tactics used are lynching, cross burning and assassination.
1950 November 1: Puerto Rican nationalists fail to assassinate President Truman.
1954: Lavon Affair – Mossad agents bomb targets in Egypt, attempting to discredit the Egyptian government.
1954 March 1: U.S. Capitol shooting incident by Puerto Rican nationalists, wounding five Congressmen.
1955 April 11: Air India "Kashmir Princess" (Lockheed Constellation) went down on the sea near Natuna Island, Indonesia after a bomb explosion, killing 16 people. The plane was chartered by the People's Republic of China (PRC) government for carrying an official delegation to Bandung Conference in Bandung, Indonesia. Possible suspects include a Kuomintang (Chinese Nationalist Party) secret agent who put the bomb in the aircraft during transit in Hong Kong intending to kill PRC Prime Minister Zhou Enlai.
1955 August 28: Lynching of Emmett Louis Till in Mississippi.
1955, August: Members of the Algerian FLN massacre civilians in the town of Philippeville.
1956 September 30: The FLN sets off bombs at the office of Air France and elsewhere in Algiers.
1958 October 12: Bombing of the Hebrew Benevolent Congregation Temple Atlanta, Georgia suspicion done by white racists.
[edit] 1960s
1960 March 4: Possible bombing of the Belgian ammunition carrier La Coubre in the port of Habana, killing over 30 people
1961 April 8: Omani terrorists blow up the passenger liner MV Dara, killing 238 people
1963: 16th Street Baptist Church bombing. A member of the Ku Klux Klan bombed a Church in Birmingham, Alabama, killing four girls aged 11-14.
1963 November 22: President John F. Kennedy is assassinated while at a rally in Texas.
1965: The Ku Klux Klan murders Viola Liuzzo, a Southern-raised white mother of five who was visiting the South from her home in Detroit to attend a civil rights march. At the time of her murder Liuzzo was transporting Civil Rights Marchers.
1965: The Monumental Plot - New York Police thwart an attempt to dynamite the Statue of Liberty, Liberty Bell, and the Washington Monument by three members of the pro Castro Black Liberation Front and a Quebec Separatist.[3]
1966 March 8: A group of former IRA men planted a bomb that destroyed Nelson's Pillar in Dublin
1966: Ulster Volunteer Force declares war on the IRA; on June 26 they commit three sectarian murders.
1966: NAACP leader Vernon Dahme assassinated by firebomb exploded by The Ku Klux Klan.
1966 September 22: A bazooka attack on the Cuban embassy in Ottawa is made.
1966 October 5: Anti-Castro forces bomb the offices of the Cuban trade delegation in Ottawa.
1967: May - December: In the Hong Kong 1967 riots, evolved from civil disobedience to terrorism. Leftists killed at least 51 people including eleven policemen, a bomb expert of the British forces and a fireman, through murders or bombs.
1968: Spring During a student rebellion at Columbia University members of the Students for a Democratic Society and Student Afro-American Society held a Dean hostage demanding an end to both military research on campus and construction of a gymnasium in nearby Harlem.[4]
1968 June 6: Senator Robert F. Kennedy assassinated by Sirhan Sirhan.
1968, August: Prior to Democratic Convention that year in Chicago Yippie party cofounder Abbie Hoffman threatened to spike the water of that city with LSD.[5]
1968 December 26: Two Palestinian gunmen travel from Beirut to Athens, and attack an El Al jet there, killing one person
1969 February 13: the Front de Libération du Québec (FLQ) set off a powerful bomb that ripped through the Montreal Stock Exchange causing massive destruction and seriously injuring 27 people.
1969 December 12: Piazza Fontana bombing in Milan, killing 16 people.
[edit] 1970s
[edit] 1970
February 21: A bomb explodes in the rear of Swissair Flight 330, causing it to crash near Zürich, Switzerland, killing 38 passengers and all nine crew members. The attack was carried out by Palestinian terror group PFLP
May 8: Avivim school bus massacre by Palestinian PLO members, killing nine children and three adults and crippling 19 children.
August 24: the Army Mathematics Research Center on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus was blown up resulting in one death
September 6: Coordinated hijacking of four airliners. One hijacking is foiled in midair and two planes are diverted to Jordan’s Dawson Field. Nicaraguan hijacker Sandinista Patrick Arguello was killed and all passengers were freed after negotiated release of captured hijacker Leila Khaled and three PFLP prisoners. The following day a fifth aircraft was also hijacked. See Dawson's Field hijackings, Black September in Jordan.
October 5 – 17: October Crisis (Quebec): FLQ murder of Pierre Laporte, kidnapping of James Cross.
October 22: An antipersonnel time bomb explodes outside a San Francisco church, showering steel shrapnel on mourners of a patrolman slain in a bank holdup; no one is injured. The Black Liberation Army is suspected.[6]
1970-1972: The Jewish Defense League was linked with a bomb explosion outside of Aeroflot's New York City office, and a detonation outside of Soviet cultural offices in Washington. Also a JDL member allegedly fired a rifle into the Soviet Union's mission office at the United Nations. Two JDL members were convicted of bomb possession and burglary in a conspiracy to blow up the Long Island residence of the Soviet Mission to the UN.
[edit] 1971
During this year, The Black Liberation Army is suspected of killing three policemen (one at his desk), shooting four others, opening fire on three patrol cars and rolling a grenade which heavily damaged a police car and injured two officers. An attempt is made to bomb a police station. These incidents happen in various cities around the country. In August the group runs a one month long guerrilla warfare school in Fayetteville, Georgia. Seven arrested in January 2007 in relation to the shooting of the policeman at his desk.[6][7]
October 31: A bomb planted by the Provisional Irish Republican Army explodes in the Post Office tower in London causing extensive damage but no injuries.[8]
December 4: In the McGurk's Bar bombing, an Ulster Volunteer Force bomb in Belfast's North Queen Street kills 15 people.
[edit] 1972
January 26: Yugoslavian Airlines Flight 364 is brought down by an explosive device planted by Ustasa agents. The McDonnell Douglas DC-9 airplane is destroyed and 27 of 28 passengers die. One stewardess survives a 10,160 meter (33,330 ft) drop.
January 27: Two policemen, Gregory Foster and Rocco Laurie, are shot in the back by at least three persons; four suspects in the case are members of the Black Liberation Army; one suspect is later killed in a street battle with St. Louis police; the recovered pistol matches Laurie's.[6]
February 22: The Official Irish Republican Army kills seven civilians in the Aldershot bombing.
April 4: Cuban official Sergio Pérez Castillo is killed by an explosion at the Cuban consulate at Montreal.
May 30: Lod Airport Massacre by the Japanese Red Army terrorists, killing 26 and injuring 78.
July 21: Bloody Friday nine are killed and 130 injured as Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) sets off 22 bombs.
Four PLO terrorists hijacked a Sabena airliner carrying 99 passengers and ten crew members on route from Brussels to Tel Aviv. In a mission titled "Operation Isotope", 16 members of Sayeret Matkal posed as refueling and technical personnel and stormed the plane, killing the terrorists and releasing the passengers.
July 31: Claudy bombings; the Provisional Irish Republican Army sets off three car bombs in Claudy killing nine.
September 5: Black September kidnaps and kills eleven Israeli Olympic athletes and one German policeman in the Munich Massacre.
September 19: The group Black September post a letter bomb to the Israeli embassy in London killing an Israeli diplomat.[9]
October 27: Police car bombing in Los Angeles claimed by Afro American Liberation Army.[6]
1972 December: A travel agency in Queens, New York is bombed; the incident is attributed to FIN, a Cuban exile groups opposed to the government of Fidel Castro.[10][citation needed]
1972 December 11: New York City. The VA-Cuba Forwarding Company is bombed. Cuban exile groups opposed to the government of Fidel Castro suspected.[10][citation needed]
December 28: A Brooklyn, New York bartender is held for $12000 ransom by the Black Liberation Army.[6]
[edit] 1973
January 7: After shooting a police officer a week earlier, Mark Essex, a former Black Panther party member shot nineteen people (ten of them police officers) in retaliation for police killings at a Howard Johnsons hotel in New Orleans. In addition, he also set fires in the hotel before being killed by police.
A New York City transit detective is killed and ten law enforcement personnel are shot, four by machine gun, during the year mostly in and around New York City by the Black Liberation Army. Also two members of that organization are arrested with a car full of explosives. In the next few years there are a number of violent incidents involving this organization but they are more criminal in nature.[6]
March 1: Black September takes ten hostages (five of them diplomats) at the Saudi Arabian embassy in Khartoum, Sudan. Three western diplomats are killed.
September 1: A man blows himself up inside Lenin Mausoleum on Moscow's Red Square. Two women standing next to him also died.[11]
September 10: The IRA set off bombs at Londons King's Cross Station and Euston Station injuring 21 people.[12]
September 28: Chopin-Express: Two Arab terrorists hijack the Chopin-Express from Moscow to Vienna at the East-West border in Marchegg. The train is often used by Jewish exilants from the USSR. The terrorists demand the closure of an Austrian transit camp for Jews on their way to Israel. Chancellor Kreisky (Jewish himself) complies and allows the terrorists to evade to Libya.
December 17: Pan Am Flight 110: 30 passengers were killed when phosphorus bombs are thrown aboard the aircraft as it prepares for departure.
December 30: Prime Minister Admiral Luis Carrero Blanco is assassinated in Madrid by ETA.
[edit] 1974
January 31: Laju incident: JRA–PFLP attack on a Shell facility in Singapore and the simultaneous seizure of the Japanese embassy in Kuwait.
February 4: Twelve people are killed by the IRA in the M62 Coach Bombing.
April 11: Kiryat Shmona massacre at an apartment building by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine members, killing 18 people, nine of whom were children.
May 15: Ma'alot massacre at the Ma'alot High School in Northern Israel by Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine members: 26 of the hostages were killed, 66 wounded.
May 17: Ulster Volunteer Force detonate three car bombs in Dublin and one in Monaghan; 35 dead – killing 35 civilians, the deadliest toll of any one day in Ireland's 'Troubles'.
May 28: Eight people are killed and at least 90 wounded when a bomb placed in a rubbish bin explodes in the Piazza della Loggia bombing.
June 17: The IRA plant a bomb which explodes at the Houses of Parliament, London, causing extensive damage and injuring eleven people.[13]
August 4: Italicus Express train between Roma and Brennero explodes, killing twelve and injuring 44. Attributed to fascist group Ordine nero.
September 8: TWA Flight 841: Bomb kills 88 on jetliner. Attributed to Abu Nidal and his terror organization.
September 13: Basque ETA group bombs the "Rolando" cafeteria in Madrid and kills twelve people.
October 5: Guildford pub bombing by the IRA leaves five dead and 44 injured.
October 22: A bomb planted by the Provisional IRA explodes in London injuring three people.[14]
November 21: Birmingham pub bombing by the IRA kills 21, 182 people are injured.
December 11: A bomb set off by the Puerto Rican nationalist group FALN in East Harlem, New York permanently disables a police officer. The officer lost an eye as a result of this act.
[edit] 1975
January 24: FALN bomb the Fraunces Tavern, killing four and injuring more than 50.
February 26: London police officer Stephen Tibble, 22, is shot dead as he chases an IRA gunman escaping from a bomb factory.
March 5: In the Savoy Operation PLO gunmen from Lebanon take dozens of hostages at the Tel Aviv Savoy Hotel eventually killing eight hostages and three IDF soldiers, and wounding eleven hostages.
April 19: FALN sets off four bombs within a forty minute period in Manhattan, New York injuring at least five people.
April 24: RAF occupies West Germany's embassy in Stockholm, Sweden, and blows up the building before surrendering to the Swedish police.
July 31: Three members of Ireland's popular Miami Showband killed in UVF gun attack in Co. Down.
December 1975: Carlos the Jackal and his rebels attack OPEC headquarters in Vienna, Austria and take over 60 hostages - mostly they were OPEC countries' leaders. On December 22 the hostages and rebels are transported in a DC-9 to Algiers where 30 hostages were freed; the plane was then flown to Tripoli, Libya where more hostages were freed before flying back to Algiers where the remaining hostages were freed and the rebels were granted asylum.
December 14: In the Netherlands, near Beilen, a passenger train was hijacked by members of the RMS movement, passengers were kept hostage. Three passengers were killed by the hijackers.
December 29: Bomb explodes at New York's LaGuardia Airport, killing eleven and injuring 75. No arrests ever made in this case and the reason for this attack remains unknown.
[edit] 1976
February 3: Somali Coast Liberation Front hijack a school bus in Djibouti, killing one girl.
February 16: Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia assassinate Turkish diplomat Oktay Cerit in Paris.
May 9: Far right gunmens (including Stefano Delle Chiaie) kill two left-wing Carlists in Montejurra.
: June 26–July 4: Hijacking of Air France Flight 139 (Tel Aviv-Paris) by Palestinian PFLP and German Revolutionäre Zellen; see Operation Entebbe: four hostages, one Sayeret Matkal soldier and 45 Ugandian soldiers killed.
September 10-September 11: Croatian Freedom Fighters hijack a TWA airliner diverting it to Gander, Newfoundland, and then Paris demanding a manifesto be printed. One police officer was killed and three injured during an attempt to defuse a bomb that contained their communiques in a New York City train station locker.[15]
September 21: Orlando Letelier assassinated in Washington by Chilean government.
October 6: Cubana Flight 455 was bombed while flying from Barbados to Havana, killing 73 passengers plus crew members. Anti-Castro exiles with suspected ties to the CIA are involved, among them Orlando Bosch and Luis Posada Carriles. Victims included six Guyanese medical students and the entire Cuban youth fencing team.[16]
December 4: In the Netherlands, members of the RMS movement occupy the Indonesian diplomatic consulate in The Hague. One Indonesian official is killed.
[edit] 1977
January 8: A bomb goes off on a Moscow subway train as it rolls into Kurskaya station. Seven die and 33 are seriously injured in the incident, attributed to Armenian terrorists.[11]
January 27: Atocha massacre in Spain. Far-right members kill five in a shooting.
March 9: Three buildings in Washington, DC are seized by members of the militant African-American Muslim Hanafi sect and over 100 hostages taken. One bystander is shot and killed, and Washington city councilman Marion Barry is shot in the chest. After a two-day standoff all hostages are released from the District Building (city hall), B'nai B'rith headquarters, and the Islamic Center.
April 7: Federal Prosecutor Siegfried Buback and his driver were shot by two Red Army Faction members.
May 23: In the Netherlands, RMS activists kept 105 children and five teachers hostage in a school in Smilde.
June 11: In the Netherlands, near Groningen, a passenger train was hijacked by members of the RMS, 55 passengers were kept hostage. In an army attack six hijackers and two passengers were killed.
July 30: Jürgen Ponto, then head of the Dresdner Bank, was shot and killed by the Red Army Faction in a failed kidnapping.
August 3: Puerto Rican nationalist group FALN in Manhattan, New York bombs the offices of Mobil and a building containing Defense Department security personal killing one and injuring eight in the Mobil offices. In addition the group warned that bombs were located in thirteen other buildings, including the Empire State Building and the World Trade Center resulting in the evacuation of one hundred thousand. Five days later a bomb attributed to the group was found in the AMEX building.[17]
September 5: Hanns Martin Schleyer was kidnapped by the Red Army Faction. He was executed by the Red Army Faction on October 19, 1977.
October 13: Lufthansa flight LH 181 was kidnapped by a group of four PFLP to Mogadishu it was freed by GSG-9 commando group.
[edit] 1978
Members of the Arab Revolutionary Council poison Israeli oranges with mercury, injuring at least twelve people and reducing exports by 40 percent.[18]
1978–1995: The Unabomber kills three and injures 29 in a string of anti-technology bombings.
February 13: Hilton bombing: A bomb is detonated outside the CHOGM meeting in Sydney, Australia, killing two people. Three Ananda Marga members are later arrested and jailed for the attack, but later released due to lack of proof.
February 17: The IRA kill twelve people in the La Mon Restaurant Bombing.
March: In the Netherlands members of the RMS movement occupy a provincial office in Assen. 67 persons were held hostage, one official was killed on the spot, another died of injuries a month later.
March 11: Coastal Road massacre: Fatah gunmen killed several tourists and hijack a bus near Haifa; 37 Israelis on the bus are killed.
March 16 – May 9: The Red Brigade kidnap Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro and assassinate him 55 days later.
[edit] 1979
March 30: A car bomb explodes in the Palace of Westminster car park killing the driver. The Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) claimed responsibility for the killing. (see Airey Neave)
June 9: Puerto Rican nationalist organization FALN exploded a bomb outside of the Shubert Theatre in Chicago, injuring five people.
July 29: Basque ETA members bomb two railway stations in Madrid, killing seven.
August 27: Lord Mountbatten and three others are killed by IRA bomb on board his boat off Mullaghmore, Co. Sligo. The same day two IRA bombs kill 18 British soldiers near Warrenpoint. After the explosions a heavy gun battle ensued between the soldiers and the attackers firing from their position inside the border with the Republic of Ireland. One British civilian was accidentally fired upon by British forces and killed.
2 November: Sunni militant group of 1,300 to 1,500 men seized the Grand Mosque in Mecca Saudi Arabia.
November 4: Iran hostage crisis, a 444-day standoff during which student proxies of the new Iranian regime held hostage 66 diplomats and citizens of the United States inside the U.S. embassy in Tehran.
November 15: American Airlines Flight 444 is attacked by the Unabomber - his bomb gives off large quantities of smoke but fails to detonate.
[edit] 1980s
[edit] 1980
January 14, 1980: A large explosion significantly damages the Cuban consulate in Montreal.
February 27: Dominican embassy siege: Guerrillas from M-19 take diplomats hostage at the Dominican embassy in Bogotá, Colombia. After 61 days, all are released on April 27.
March 15: armed members of FALN raided the campaign headquarters of President Jimmy Carter in Chicago and the campaign headquarters of George H. W. Bush in New York City. Seven people in Chicago and ten people in New York were tied up as the offices were vandalized before the FALN members fled. A few days later, Carter delegates in Chicago received threatening letters from FALN.
March 24: Archbishop Óscar Romero assassinated by death squads in El Salvador.
April 30: Iranian Embassy siege: Iraqi agents take over the Iranian Embassy in London, gaining hostages. After a number of days, one hostage was killed by the Iraqis, and the Special Air Service assaulted the building to rescue the remaining hostages. One hostage died during the assault.
June 3: A bomb destroys most of the exhibits in the Statue of Liberty story room. No one is arrested, but Croatian separatists are suspected.
July 27: A member of the Abu Nidal Organization carried out a grenade attack on a group of Jews waiting for a bus in Antwerp, Belgium, killing a child and wounding twenty others. Said Al Nasr will be convicted for this act.
August 2: Strage di Bologna: A terrorist bombing at the railway station in Bologna, Italy kills 85 people and wounds more than 200.
October 3: Four congregants were killed and twelve others injured in a bomb attack on the rue Copernic synagogue in Paris, France. Responsibility was claimed by the National European Fascists (FNE), but the police investigation concluded that Palestinian terrorists were involved.
[edit] 1981
May 16: One dead in an explosion in the toilets at the Pan Am terminal at New York's JFK airport. The bombing is claimed by the Puerto Rican Resistance Army.[19]
August 29: Machine gun and grenade attack on the Stadttempel synagogue in Vienna, killing two people and wounding 23. Marwan Hasan and Hesham Mohammed Rajeh were convicted.
October 6: Assassination of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat by Islamic Jihad.
October 20: Attack on a synagogue in Antwerp, Belgium, killing three and wounding sixty.
[edit] 1982
March 29: A bomb on board the Paris-Toulouse train kills five and injures 27 people. Carlos assumed to be responsible.
July 20: The Hyde Park and Regents Park bombings in London by the IRA kill eleven members of the Household Cavalry and the Royal Green Jackets.
August 7: Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia set off a bomb in Ankara airport, killing nine people and wounding 70.
August 9: Rue des Rosiers, Paris gunning and bombing of Goldenberg restaurant : six killed and 22 wounded - Fatah - the Revolutionary Council
August 11: A bomb explodes on Pan Am Flight 830, enroute from Tokyo to Honolulu, killing one teenager and injuring 15 passengers.
September 14: Assassination of Lebanese President Bashir Gemayel and twenty-five others in a car explosion at the Kataeb headquarters.
September 18: Four people are wounded when a synagogue in Brussels is attacked in a "shoot and run" incident. Guards were taken by surprise and the gunman, believed to be from the Abu Nidal Organization, escaped.
October 9: Attack with grenades and machine guns on the central synagogue in Rome, Italy. A child dies, ten people are injured.
October 14: Direct Action bombs a Litton Industries factory.
November 30: A group called the Animal Rights Militia send a letter bomb to Margaret Thatcher at 10 Downing Street, London the device exploded injuring one person.[20]
December 6: Ballykelly disco bombing in which Irish National Liberation Army kills seventeen civilians and soldiers in Northern Ireland.
[edit] 1983
April 18: U.S. Embassy Bombing in Beirut, Lebanon kills 63.
July 15: Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia bombed a Turkish airline counter in the Orly Airport, killing eight people and wounding over 50.
September 23: Gulf Air Flight 771 is bombed, killing all 117 people on board.
October 9: Rangoon bombing by North Koreans targets South Korean President Chun Doo Hwan, killing 21 persons and injuring 48.
October 23: Marine Barracks Bombing in Beirut kills 241 U.S. Marines. 58 French troops from the multinational force are also killed in a separate attack.
November 9: U.S. Senate bombing. A time bomb consisting of several sticks of dynamite explodes at the United States Senate in response to the U.S. invasion of Grenada. No one was injured, a group known as the Armed Resistance Unit claims responsibility.
December 17: Harrods was bombed by the IRA. Six were killed (including three police officers) and 90 wounded during Christmas shopping at the West London department store. (See 17 December 1983 Harrods bombing)
December 31: On the way to New Year's Eve seven persons are killed and 70 wounded by bombs on the Marseille to Paris TGV and at the St-Charles station in Marseille. The attack is attributed to Carlos on behalf of the O.L.A.
[edit] 1984
The Rajneeshee cult spreads salmonella in salad bars at ten restaurants in The Dalles,Oregon to influence a local election. Health officials say that 751 people were sickened and more than 40 hospitalized.[18]
March 7: three killed and nine injured in the bombing of a civilian bus in Ashdod.
April 2: 48 people are wounded by a machine gun attack on a crowded shopping mall in Jerusalem.
October 12: Brighton hotel bombing by the IRA: five are killed in an attempt to kill members of the British cabinet.
October 31: Indian prime minister Indira Gandhi assassinated by her Sikh bodyguards. The killing was in retaliation for the Indian army's entry into the Golden Temple at Amritsar to flush out Sikh extremists who were using the temple as a base for their operations.
December 23: A bomb placed on the Naples-Milan Express train 904 explodes in the same tunnel as the Italicus Expressen massacre, killing 17 and wounding 250. The attack is attributed to mafia.
[edit] 1985
February 23: Paris Marks & Spencer shop, one bomb, one dead, 18 wounded, attributed to pro-Iranian Lebanese Hezbollah.
February 28: Provisional Irish Republican Army mortar attack kills nine police officers in Newry.
March 8: Car bomb explodes in Beirut, killing 80, injuring 175; reportedly planned and executed by the United States Central Intelligence Agency.[21]
March 9: Paris, Cinema Rivoli, 18 injured, pro-Iranian Lebanese Hezbollah
June 14: TWA Flight 847 skyjacking, Hezbollah, see FBI Most Wanted Terrorists. Terrorists take passengers of an Athens-Rome flight hostage, murdering US Navy Seaman, Robert Stethem.
May 14: The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam massacre 146 Sinhalese civilians in the Anuradhapura massacre.[22] This remains one of the largest massacres of civilians carried out by any terrorist group to-date. This was also the deadliest terrorist attack in Sri Lankan history.
June 19: Zona Rosa Attacks Four United States Marines, two United States businessmen, a Guatemalan, a Chilean, and four Salvadorans were killed in a machine gun attack in the Zona Rosa area of San Salvador, El Salvador. The groups responsible for carrying out the attack were the Central American Revolutionary Workers' *Party (PRTC) and its terrorist arm, the Mardoqueo Cruz Urban Commando (CMC)
June 22: Air India Flight 182 is blown up by a bomb put onboard the flight from Canada to India by unknown terrorists. All 329 people on board are killed. At the time, the deadliest terrorist attack ever, and still the deadliest act of terrorism in Canadian history. A second Air India flight from Canada was targeted on the same day, but the bomb exploded at the Tokyo airport, in the luggage outside the aircraft, killing two baggage handlers, bringing the total death toll of the act to 331.
July 10: Greenpeace vessel Rainbow Warrior bombed in Auckland harbour by operatives from the French foreign intelligence agency (DGSE), killing one person.
and October 7 – October 10: Achille Lauro cruise ship hijacking by Palestinian Liberation Front, during which passenger Leon Klinghoffer is shot dead.
October 11: Arab anti-discrimination group leader Alex Odeh is killed when a bomb explodes in his Santa Ana, California office.
November 6: Palace of Justice siege: M-19 guerrillas seize the Supreme Court building in Bogotá, Colombia. The next day, an operation to free the hostages leaves some 100 people dead.
November 23: EgyptAir Flight 648 hijacked by Abu Nidal group, flown to Malta, where Egyptian commandos storm plane; 60 are killed by gunfire and explosions.
December 7: Paris, Galeries Lafayette and Printemps shops, two bombs, 51 injured, attributed to pro-Iranian Lebanese Hizbollah
December 27: Rome and Vienna Airport Attacks.
Investigators associated with the WHO reported that U.S.-funded Contras repeatedly destroyed health-care facilities and murdered health-care workers in Nicaraqua.
In the Amanzimtoti bombing on 23 December 1985, MK cadre Andrew Sibusiso Zondo detonated an explosive in a rubbish bin at the Sanlam shopping centre. Five people died in the blast and over forty were injured.
[edit] 1986
A bomb place on a bus in the West Bank kills one and severely injures three. A Jordanian Mahmoud Mahmoud Atta is arrested, extradited to Israel, convicted, sentenced to life in prison and freed by the Israeli Supreme Court. After the September 11 attacks, he was confused with ringleader Egyptian Mohammed Atta.[23]
February 3: Paris, Claridge passage (Champs Élysées) seven injured, another bomb failed to explode in the Eiffel tower, pro-Iranian (Fouad Ali Saleh group)
February 4: Paris, Gibert book shop, seven injured, Fouad Ali Saleh
February 5: Paris, FNAC-sports, 15 injured
March 17: TGV Paris, nine injured
March 20: Paris, Galerie Point-Show bombed, two dead, 21 injured
April 2: TWA Flight 840 bombed on approach to Athens airport; four passengers (all of them American), including an infant, are killed.
April 6: the La Belle discotheque in Berlin, a known hangout for U.S. soldiers, was bombed, killing three and injuring 230 people, for which Libya is held responsible. In retaliation, the US bombs Libya in Operation El Dorado Canyon, hitting civilian targets and killing at least 100 people,[24] while trying to kill Colonel Muammar al-Qaddafi, who survived the attack.
May 3: A bomb explodes aboard a Sri Lankan airliner in Colombo, Sri Lanka, killing 21 and injuring 40
June 14: ANC bombs Why Not Restaurant and Magoo's Bar in Durban, South Africa, three people killed, 73 wounded.
July 15: ETA Basque militant group bombs a Guardia Civil police truck, killing twelve.
September 5: Pan Am Flight 73, an American civilian airliner, is hijacked; 22 people die when plane is stormed in Karachi, Pakistan.
September 8: Paris town hall's post office bombed, one dead, 16 injured
September 12: Paris La Défense, Casino Supermarket's restaurant bombed, 43 injured
September 14: Paris, Pub Renault bombed, two dead, one injured
September 15: Paris, police headquarters bombed, one dead, 45 injured
September 17: Paris, Rue de Rennes a bomb explodes in the street, seven dead, 54 injured.
December 25: Iraqi Airways Flight 163 is hijacked. The pro-Iranian group "Islamic Jihad" claimed responsibility.
December 31: New Year's Eve fire at the Dupont Plaza Hotel in San Juan, Puerto Rico, claimed 97 lives, mainly in the casino area. Fire set by three hotel workers, trying to make tourists stay away from Puerto Rico as a protest to their working wages.
[edit] 1987
April 21: Car bomb at bus terminal in Colombo, Sri Lanka kills 110 people.[25] This attack carried out by Sri Lankan Tamil terrorists belonging to the LTTE.
April 25: Bombing of Greek Air Force bus carrying American military personnel. A group called November 17 claims responsibility.[26]
May 8: An assault by an IRA team on Loughgall RUC base is stopped by SAS commandos, who kill eight attackers. See Loughgall Ambush.
June 6: The LTTE massacres 33 monks and their mentor, Chief Priest Ven. Hegoda Indrasara, at Aranthalawa in Eastern Sri Lanka.[27]
June 19: ETA Basque militant group bomb in Hipercor Mall's parking in Barcelona, kills 21, 45 injured.
November 8: Remembrance Day Bombing parade in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh by the IRA. Eleven are killed and 63 injured.
November 29: KAL Flight 858 bombed by North Korea.
December 11: ETA Basque militant group bomb a Guardia Civil police bedrooms in Zaragoza, kills eleven, 40 injured.
[edit] 1988
January 13: A bomb place outside the Monaco building, property of Medellín Cartel leader,Pablo Escobar kills two security guards. The bomb was blamed on the rival Cali Cartel.[28]
April 12: Japanese Red Army terrorist Yu Kikumura was arrested at a rest stop on the New Jersey turnpike in possession of pipe bombs on his way to New York.[29]
Wreckage of Pan Am Flight 103 in Lockerbie, Scotland. December 21: Pan Am Flight 103 bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland. At the time, it was the worst act of terrorism perpetrated against the United States, and involved the greatest number of peacetime fatalities (270) in the United Kingdom. Just over 12 years after the event, at the conclusion of the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing trial, a Libyan agent, Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi, was convicted on 270 counts of murder and was sentenced to life imprisonment. Libya subsequently agreed to pay relatives of the Lockerbie bombing victims $2.7 billion ($10 million each) in compensation.
March 16: Michael Stone killed three mourners in an attack on an Irish Republican Army funeral in Belfast in as Sinn Féin leaders, including Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness stood by the grave.[30]
[edit] 1989
May 30: A bomb kills four and injures 37 on an assassination attempt against Miguel Maza Marquez head of the Colombian Secret Service.[31]
July 5: A car bomb kills six, including the governor of Antioquia, Antonio Roldan Betancur. No claim is made for the attack.[32]
July 9: Two bombs explode in Mecca, killing one pilgrim and wounding 16 others.
August 18: The Medellín Cartel declares "total and absolute war" against the Colombian government. The offices of the two main political parties were bombed and the homes of two local politicians were burned.[33]
August 31: A bomb in a bicycle cart injures 13 in Medellín.[34]
September 2: A bomb partially destroys the headquarters of El Espectador, a Colombian newspaper, leaving 84 wounded. Bomb is blamed on Pablo Escobar
September 4: A bomb detonates in front of the Intercontinental Hotel in Medellín.[35]
September 4: An unidentified man opens fire at the Medellín airport, killing one and wounding 14, before being gunned down by the police.[36]
September 16: A bomb explodes on a bus bound from Tbilisi to Baku, USSR when it passes near Yevlakh, Azerbaijan, killing five people and wounding 27.[37]
September 18: Five bombs kill twelve people in Medellín during the ongoing war the Medellín Cartel declared on the Colombia government. On the same day, the Pablo Escobar has liberal leader Pablo Pelaez Gonzalez assassinated.[38]
September 18: Three bombs explode in Cali killing one person.[39]
September 19: Suitcase-bomb destroys UTA Flight UT-772 en route to Paris, killing all 171 passengers and crew. Libyan intelligence involved.
September 21: The Medellín Cartel claims responsibility for the car bomb attack to the Colombian Liberal Party's offices in downtown Bogotá
September 22: Deal barracks bombing: Eleven Royal Marines bandsmen are killed and 22 injured when base in Deal, Kent, is bombed by the IRA.
September 25: A bomb kills two and injures one at the Hilton hotel in Cartagena.[40]
September 28: A bomb kills two at a suburban gas station in Bogotá. The dead are believed to be terrorists.[41]
September 29: A bomb injures one at the parking garage of the Intercontinental Hotel in Bogotá. The attack was blamed on the Medellín Cartel.[42]
October 8: A fire bomb kills seven and injures seven in a bus in Bogotá. The action is blamed on the Medellín Cartel.[43]
October 9: Ten bombs go off in two Colombian cities, injuring 32. The bombs coincide with the visit of a senior US Army officer on talks about drug control.[44]
October 16: A car bomb against the Vanguardia Liberal newspaper kills four in Bucaramanga.[45]
October 18: A bomb explodes prematurely outside the Colombian Congress, injuring one.[46]
October 21: A car bomb in front of a hotel in Barranquilla leaves six injured.[47]
October 30: A bomb hidden beneath a bus kills five police officer and injures 15 more in Medellín. The drug lords are believed responsible.[48]
November 27: Avianca Flight 203 bombed over Colombia; 110 victims. Medellín drug cartel claimed responsibility.
December 6: Truck bomb kills 52 and injures 1,000 outside the Departamento Administrativo de Seguridad (DAS) building near downtown Bogotá, Colombia; blast is blamed on drug lord Pablo Escobar and it's widely believed to be an assassination attempt on the director of DAS, Miguel Maza Marquez.
December 6: Anti-feminist Marc Lépine shoots 26 people, killing 14 women, at the École Polytechnique de Montréal - the event is dubbed the Montreal massacre.
[edit] 1990s
[edit] 1990
January 6: A car bomb explodes outside private offices in Bogotá. While no casualties are reported, the office belonged to the son of the personal secretary of Colombian president, Virgilio Barco.[49]
February: The IRA detonate a bomb at Leicester Army Recruiting Office. MP Keith Vaz suggests that the army may have planted the bomb.[50]
April 6: Colombian police defuse a truck containing more than a half-ton of explosives in a wealthy residential area of Bogotá. The truck had been parked in front of a high school and was set to go off during the morning rush.[51]
April 11: A bomb kills 14 and injures 100 in Medellín. The bomb was directed at a group of Elite Police and it is blamed on the Medellín Cartel, which had offered $100,000 for every anti-terrorism police killed and $ 4,500 for every regular policeman assassinated.[52]
April 25: A car bomb kills nine in Medellín. Authorities believe the Medellín Cartel is responsible. The next day, presidential candidate Carlos Pizarro Leongómez is assassinated while onboard a comercial airliner.[53]
April 25 A bomb hidden in a dump truck kills six and injures at least 36 in Bogotá.[54]
May 4: A bomb exploded in front of a pharmacy in Cali, killing four and wounding 20. It is blamed on the ongoing war between the two rival drug cartels in Colombia.
May 7: A car bomb kills one and injures five, outside a government building in Pereira, capital of Risaralda State. No group claims responsibility but the government blames drug lords who declared war on the country nine months earlier.[55]
May 13: Two car bombs explode simultaneously in the Quirigua and Niza shopping malls during Mother's Day in Bogotá killing 19, including six children, and wounding 140, while another bomb exploded in a restaurant in Cali, killing six and injuring 20. Authorities say the Medellín Cartel is to blame for the attacks.[56]
May 17: A bomb inside a shopping mall in Cartagena wounds 22. The Medellín Cartel is blamed.[57]
May 25: A suicide bomber detonates a car bomb when stopped by police, killing himself and three others in Medellín.[58]
June 15: A car bomb kills four near a police station in Medellín. Authorities blame the Medellín Cartel which had previously pledged to murder police in retaliation to the government's anti-drug policies.[59]
June 29: A car bomb kills 14 and injures 30 in Medellín. The Medellín Cartel is blamed by authorities.[60]
July 15: A round of terrorist attacks leaves 40 dead in Medellín. Another bomb exploded in Puerto Asis, killing six and injuring five.[61]
July 20: The IRA detonate a bomb at the London Stock Exchange causing damage to the building. Nobody was injured in the blast.[62]
July 30: Ian Gow MP killed by a car bomb planted by the IRA while at his home in Sussex.
August 10: A bus going from Tbilisi, Georgia to Agdam, Azerbaijan is blown up, allegedly at the hands of Armenian terrorists. Twenty people die and 33 are injured.[63]
October 24: A series of car bombings directed by the IRA in Northern Ireland leave seven people dead and 37 wounded.
PLF attack in the beaches on Tel Aviv.
PLO attack on the US embassy.
September: Rebels bomb two sections of Colombia's Cano Limon pipeline. It is the fourth attack against the pipeline in two weeks, and rebel group ELN claims responsibility.[64]
November 5: Assassination of Meir Kahane head of Israel's Koch party and founder of the American vigilante group the Jewish Defense League in a Manhattan, New York hotel lobby by early elements of Al Queda.
December 13: A remote control bomb kills seven police officer and injures 23 more in Medellín. Authorities blame the Medellín Cartel for the attack.[65]
[edit] 1991
January 6: A bomb kills three and wounds seven in La Dorada, Caldas. No group claims responsibility.[66]
February 7: The IRA launched a mortar shell into the back garden of 10 Downing Street, London. (See 10 Downing Street#Security)
February 16: The Medellín Cartel detonates a 440-pound car bomb near the Medellín bullring, killing 22 people, including 9 police officers.[67]
May 13: Nine police officers die while deactivating a bomb left behind by leftist guerillas.[68]
May 21: Former Indian prime minister Rajiv Gandhi assassinated in a bomb blast believed to be the work of Sri Lankan Tamil terrorists belonging to the LTTE.[25] This is also the first time that the suicide vest is used by any terrorist group.
May 29: Basque ETA terror group bombs the Guardia Civil police barracks in Vic (Barcelona), killing ten people.
May 30: A train traveling from Moscow to Baku explodes near Karvin-Yurt station between Gudermes and Makhachkala in Dagestan, Russia. Eleven people die and eight are injured.[69]
July 12: Leftist groups bomb the runway at the Rafael Núñez International Airport in Cartagena.[70]
[edit] 1992
January 17: Eight Protestant builders killed by an IRA bomb on their way to work at an Army base near Omagh.
February 28, 1992: A bomb explodes at London Bridge station injuring 29 people.
March 17: Israeli Embassy bombing by "Islamic Jihad" in Buenos Aires, Argentina; 29 killed, 242 injured.
April 5, 1992: The Iranian embassy in Ottawa is stormed by members of MEK, an Iraq-supported religious right group.
April 10, 1992: A large bomb explodes in St Mary Axe in the City of London killing three people and injuring 91. Many buildings are heavily damaged and the Baltic Exchange is completely destroyed.
September 1: Nine die, including a six-month old baby, and seven are injured when a bomb explodes in a suburb of Medellín.[71]
October 12, 1992: A device explodes in the gents' toilet of the Sussex Arms public house in Covent Garden killing one person and injuring four others.
November 11: Bombs explode in nine Colombian cities, leaving one person dead and 35 injured. The Medellín Cartel is held responsible for the attacks.[72]
December 3: Ten police officers and four civilians die when a bomb planted by drug traffickers explode in Medellín.[73]
December 29: Two police officers and 50 civilians wounded when a car bomb explodes at a party in a suburban area of Medellín.[74]
[edit] 1993
January 7: A car bomb kills two and injures 39 in the parking lot of a building where several judges lived, in the city of Medellín.[75]
January 25: Mir Aimal Kansi, a Pakistani, fires an AK-47 assault rifle into cars waiting at a stoplight in front of the Central Intelligence Agency headquarters, killing two and injuring three others, see FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives.
January 30: A bomb kills 20 in downtown Bogotá. The attack is blamed on drug leader Pablo Escobar.[76]
February 11: A bomb kills 14 and injures 25 at an auto repair shop in Barrancabermeja.[77]
February 22: Two powerful car bombs kill four and injure 100 in a commercial district and a shopping mall in Bogotá. The attacks are likely linked to drug traffickers waging war against the Colombian government.[78]
February 26: World Trade Center bombing kills six and injures over 1000 people, by coalition of five groups: Jamaat Al-Fuqra'/Gamaat Islamiya/Hamas/Islamic Jihad/National Islamic Front,[79] see FBI Most Wanted Terrorists, FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives, Ramzi Yousef.
March 12: Mumbai car bombings in India leave 257 dead with 1,400 others injured.
April 15: A bomb kills 15 and wounds over 100 at the Centro 93 shopping mall in Bogotá. Authorities blame Pablo Escobar.[80]
March 20: IRA bomb in Warrington kills two children (See Warrington Bomb Attacks).
April 24: IRA detonate a huge truck bomb in the City of London at Bishopsgate, killing two and causing approximately £1bn of damage.[81]
May 1: Suicide bomber in Colombo, Sri Lanka kills Sri Lankan President Ranasingha Premadasa. This is one of the few occasions in modern history in which an existing head of state has been assassinated by a terrorist group. Attack carried out by Sri Lankan Tamil terrorists belonging to the LTTE.[25]
May 27: A car-bomb placed by mafia in the neighbourhood of the Uffizi museum in Florence kills five people and wounds 40.
June: Failed New York City landmark bomb plot, see FBI Most Wanted Terrorists
June 21: ETA Basque terrorist group bombs a military truck in Madrid, kills seven, 36 injured.
July 5: the IRA detonate a 1500 lb car bomb (the largest used in Northern Ireland) in the centre of Newtownards in Northern Ireland, no one is killed but severe property damage is caused to the town centre.
July 27: Three car-bombs explode simultaneously and in a street in the center of Milan, killing five, and in front of two churches in Rome. The attack is attributed to mafia.
October 23: the Shankill Road bombing at a fish and chip shop on the Protestant Shankill Road, Belfast kills ten people, including two children.
October 30: Seven people killed in the Rising Sun Bar massacre, when Loyalist Ulster Freedom Fighters gunmen attack a bar in Greysteel, County Londonderry.
[edit] 1994
February 25: In the Cave of the Patriarchs massacre, Baruch Goldstein kills 29 Palestinian civilians in an attack in the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron.
March 1: In the Brooklyn Bridge Shooting, Rashid Baz kills a Hasidic seminary student and wounds four on the Brooklyn Bridge in New York City in response to the Cave of the Patriarchs massacre.[82]
June 18: Six Catholic men shot dead by Loyalists in a pub in Loughinisland, Co Down.
July 18: Bombing of Jewish Center in Buenos Aires, Argentina, kills 86 and wounds 300. Generally attributed to Hezbollah acting on behalf of Iran.
July 19: Alas Chiricanas Flight 00901 is bombed, killing 21. Generally attributed to Hezbollah.
July 26: Israeli Embassy Attack in London and a Jewish charity are car-bombed, wounding 20. Attributed by Britain, Argentina, and Israel to Hezbollah.
December 11: A small bomb explodes on board Philippine Airlines Flight 434, killing a Japanese businessman. Authorities found out that Ramzi Yousef planted the bomb to test it for his planned terrorist attack, see FBI Most Wanted Terrorists, FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives
December 24: Air France Flight 8969 is hijacked by GIA members who planned to crash the plane on Paris but didn't succeed.
[edit] 1995
January 6: Oplan Bojinka plot to bomb eleven U.S. airliners is discovered on a laptop computer in a Manila, Philippines apartment by authorities after an apartment fire occurred in the apartment, by Jemaah Islamiyah/Konsojaya/Abu Sayyaf Group/Ramzi Yousef/Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, see FBI Most Wanted Terrorists
March 8: Terrorists in Karachi, Pakistan, armed with automatic rifles, murdered two American consulate employees and wounded a third as they traveled in the consulate shuttle bus. See Rewards for Justice.
March 20: Sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway by AUM Shinrikyo cultists kills twelve people and injures 6000.
April 19: ETA Basque militant group tries to kill José María Aznar (then leader of the Popular Party, later a Spanish Prime Minister) bombing his car, kills a woman.
April 19: Oklahoma City bombing kills 168 people, 19 of them children; the most deadly act of domestic terrorism in the United States to date.
May 6: A synagogue is bombed by terrorists in Riga.
June 11: Leftist group FARC claims responsibility for a bomb that kills 29 and injures 205 at a music concert in Medellín.[83]
June 14—June 19: Budyonnovsk hospital hostage crisis, 105 civilians and 25 Russian troops were killed.
July—October: Bombings in France by a GIA unit led by Khaled Kelkal kill eight and injure more than 100.
August 27: Suicide bomber in Colombo, Sri Lanka kills 24 civilians, injures 40. Attack carried out by Sri Lankan Tamil terrorists belonging to the LTTE.
October 9: An Amtrak Sunset Limited train is derailed by anti-government saboteurs near Palo Verde, Arizona. One person is killed and 78 are injured.
November 11: Suicide bombing of army headquarters in Colombo, Sri Lanka kills 15. Attack carried out by Sri Lankan Tamil terrorists belonging to the LTTE.
November 13: Bombing of OPM-SANG building in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia kills seven
November 19: Bombing of Egyptian Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan kills 19.
December 11: ETA Basque militant group bombs a military truck in Madrid, killing six civilians.
[edit] 1996
January: In Kizlyar, 350 Chechen militants took 3,000 hostages in a hospital. The attempt to free them kills 65 civilians and soldiers.
January: Provisional Irish Republican Army plants a bomb that police defuse at the Canary Wharf towers in London.
January 31: LTTE carries out Central Bank Bombing in Sri Lanka kills 90 and wounds 1,400.
February 9: IRA bombs the South Quay station, killing two people. (see 9 February 1996 South Quay bombing)
February 25 - March 4: A series of four suicide bombings in Israel leave 60 dead and 284 wounded within ten days.
June 11: A bomb explodes on a train traveling on the Serpukhovsko-Timiryazevskaya Line of the Moscow Metro, killing four people and seriously injuring at least twelve.[84]
June 15: A bomb containing 1500 kg of explosives was detonated by the IRA in Manchester city centre. Due to a warning being given the area was evacuated and nobody was killed. (see Manchester bombing by IRA).
June 25: Khobar Towers bombing -- In all, 19 U.S. servicemen and one Saudi were killed and 372 wounded, by Hizballah Al-Hijaz (Saudi Hizballah) with Iranian support, see FBI Most Wanted Terrorists
July 24: LTTE plants bomb on commuter train in Sri Lanka kills 57.
July 27: Centennial Olympic Park bombing, killing one and wounding 111.
August: Marina Roscha Synagogue in Moscow is bombed shortly after being rebuilt after a fire in 1993.
December 17: Japanese embassy hostage crisis begins in Lima, Peru; it ends April 22, 1997 with the deaths of 14 rebels, two soldiers and a hostage.
[edit] 1997
Israeli settlers spray pesticides on grapevines in two Palestinian villages, destroying up to 17,000 metric tons of grapes.[18]
February 24: Ali Abu Kamal opens fire on tourists at an observation deck atop the Empire State Building in New York City, United States, killing a Danish national and wounding visitors from the United States, Argentina, Switzerland and France before turning the gun on himself. A handwritten note carried by the gunman claims this was a punishment attack against the "enemies of Palestine". His widow claimed he became suicidal after losing $300,000 in a business venture. In a 2007 interview with the New York Daily News his daughter said her mothers story was a cover crafted by the Palestinian Authority and that her father wanted to punish the United States for its support of Israel.[85]
February 27: A car bomb kills seven and injures 49 in the town of Apartadó, Chocó. No groups claim responsibility.[86]
June 28: A bomb explodes on a train traveling from Moscow to Saint Petersburg, Russia, killing three and injuring seven.[87]
February 25: Three bus bombs in Urumqi destroy the No. 2, 10, and 44 buses, killing nine people.
June 17: Eight elite police officers die after a truck bomb explodes in Bogotá. Authorities say FARC is responsible for the attack.[88]
November 17: Luxor Massacre – Islamist gunmen attack tourists in Luxor, Egypt, killing 62 and injuring 24 people, most of them European and Japanese vacationers.
December 22: Acteal massacre – 46 killed while praying in Acteal, Chiapas, Mexico. A paramilitary group associated with ex-president Salinas is held responsible.
Luis Posada Carriles organized a string of bombings at luxury hotels in Cuba in 1997 in order to discourage the growth of the tourism industry. One Italian tourist died.
[edit] 1998
January: Wandhama Massacre - 24 Kashmiri Pandits are massacred by Pakistan-backed insurgents in the city of Wandhama in Indian-controlled Kashmir.
Aftermath of the LTTE suicide bombing of the Sacred Buddhist Shrine Sri Dalada Maligawa on January 25, 1998 February 14: 1998 Coimbatore bombings - Bombings by suspected Islamic Jihadi groups on an election rally in Indian city of Coimbatore kill about 60 people.
January 25: LTTE bombs the sacred Buddhist shrine Sri Dalada Maligawa in Kandy, Sri Lanka killing 17.
April 2/April 6: Two bombs explode in Riga targeting a Synagogue and the Russian Embassy building for Latvia, linked to Fascist extremist movements. See also Riga Bombing 1998.
May 13: A bomb blast destroys the outer wall of the Marina Roscha Synagogue in Moscow. The third time the building has been attacked.
August 5: Rebel groups ELN and FARC attack police and army bases, a major dam, oil pipelines and other targets in 17 of the 32 states, killing at least 26 police officers. [89]
August 7: U.S. embassy bombings in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Nairobi, Kenya, killing 225 people and injuring more than 4,000, by al-Qaeda, see FBI Most Wanted Terrorists
August 15: Omagh bombing by the Real IRA kills 29.
October 18: The rebel group ELN blows the Ocensa pipeline near Machuca, Antioquia. The resulting fire kills 84 civilians, most of them burned alive, and injures at least 100. Initially, ELN denies responsibly but then accepts it as a "military error". The heads of ELN have been sentenced to 40 years in prison for this action. During the following years, ELN and FARC conduct over 600 attacks with explosives on pipelines in Colombia, mostly targeting the Cano Limon line, according to the Colombian Ministry of Defense.[90]
[edit] 1999
January 3: Gunmen open fire on Shi'a Muslims worshipping in an Islamabad mosque, killing 16 people injuring 25.
April: David Copeland's nail bomb attacks against ethnic minorities and gays in London kill three people and injure over 160.
April 20: Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold kill thirteen students and a teacher and wound 24 others in the Columbine High School massacre. (Note: this may be commonly considered a general massacre and thus included in the List of massacres, but it also followed death threats on the website of Harris – an attempt to terrorize.)
April 26: An explosion inside an elevator at the Intourist hotel in Moscow injured eleven people.[91]
July 30: A car bomb kills nine and injures 38 at a military base in Medellín. Authorities blame leftist guerrillas for the attack.[92]
August 31 – September 22: Russian Apartment Bombings kills about 300 people, leading Russia into Second Chechen War.
December: Jordanian authorities foil a plot to bomb US and Israeli tourists in Jordan and pick up 28 suspects as part of the 2000 millennium attack plots
November 12: Seven die and dozens are injured when a bomb explodes in Bogotá. No claim for responsibility is made.[93]
December 14: Ahmed Ressam is arrested on the United States–Canada border in Port Angeles, Washington; he confessed to planning to bomb the Los Angeles International Airport as part of the 2000 millennium attack plots
December 24: Indian Airlines Flight 814 from Kathmandu, Nepal to Delhi, India is hijacked. One passenger is killed and some hostages are released. After negotiations between the Taliban and the Indian government, the last of the remaining hostages on board Flight 814 are released in exchange for release of four terrorists.
[edit] 2000s
[edit] 2000
The last of the 2000 millennium attack plots fails, as the boat meant to bomb USS The Sullivans sinks.
German police foil Strasbourg cathedral bombing plot.
May: The Balochistan Liberation Army begins its attacks against government and military targets in Balochistan.
March 15: A botched rocket attack by rebels against an army base left two dead and 14 injured near Medellín.[94]
May 16: Suspected FARC guerrillas detonated a collar bomb they attached to dairy farmer Elvia Cortes, age 55, after she refused to pay a $7,500 extorsion. This event is the theme of the movie PVC-1, winner of the Director's Fortnight Selection Award at the Cannes Film Festival 2007.
June 8: Stephen Saunders, a British Defense Attaché, was assassinated by Revolutionary Organization 17 November in Athens.
August 8: A bomb exploded at an underpass in Pushkin Square in Moscow, killing eleven people and wounding more than 90.[95]
August 17: Two bombs exploded in a shopping center in Riga, Latvia, injuring 35 people.[96]
October 8: A car bomb injures four near a military base in Cali. Rebel group ELN is blamed.[97]
October 12: USS Cole bombing kills 17 US sailors and wounds 40 off the port coast of Aden, Yemen, by al-Qaeda, see FBI Most Wanted Terrorists, the Buffalo Six Lackawanna Cell.[98]
December 30: Rizal Day Bombings, terrorists blow up LRts in Manila killing 22 and injuring more than 100 people.
[edit] 2001
January 10: A car bomb wounds at least 50 in a shopping center parking lot in Medellín.[99]
February 5: A bomb blast in Moscow's Byelorusskaya metro station injures 15 people.
February 18: Podujevo bus bombing, 13 Serbian civilians are killed by a bomb attack on a bus in Northern Kosovo.
March 1: A bomb destroys a high-voltage pylon leaving vast areas of the country without power for five hours. Attack is blamed on ELN
March 4: The Real IRA exploded a car bomb outside the BBC's main news centre in London. One London Underground worker suffered deep cuts to his eye from flying glass and some damage was caused to the front of the building.[100] (See 4 March 2001 BBC bombing)
March 24: Twenty people die and 93 are injured in three bomb attacks on Russian towns near the border of Chechnya.
March 26: 10-months-old Israeli infant Shalhevet Pass is intentionally and fatally shot in the head by a Palestinian sniper in Hebron.
May 4: A car bomb kills four and injures 32 in a luxury hotel in Cali. No group claims the attack.[101]
May 6: The Real IRA detonate a bomb in a London postal sorting office. One person was injured.[102]
May 17: A car bomb kills seven and injures at least 50 in a park in Medellín.[103]
May 24: Two bombs kill four near the Universidad Nacional campus in Bogotá. One more bomb is defused before it could explode. Right-wing paramilitaries are suspected.[104]
June 1: 21 civilians, mostly teenagers from the former Soviet Union, are killed by a Hamas suicide bomber in the Dolphinarium massacre in Tel Aviv, Israel
June 17: A car bomb injures 16 in the town of San Martin, Meta. No group claims responsibility, but both FARC and AUC are suspected.[105]
July 24 A suicide squad of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) staged an attack on Sri Lanka's Bandaranaike International Airport and the adjoining air force base at Katunayake. The 14 man-squad destroyed or damaged about 20 aircraft and killed seven Sri Lankan workers and soldiers.
August 3: The last (at time of writing) IRA bomb on mainland Britain explodes in Ealing, West London, injuring seven people.[106] (See 3 August 2001 Ealing bombing)
August 9: A suicide bomber in Jerusalem kills seven and wounds 130 in the Sbarro restaurant suicide bombing; Hamas and Islamic Jihad claim responsibility.
August 23: In a series of attacks near Medellín, 10 bombs kill one and injure 39 others. No group claims resposibility.[107]
August 23: At least 15 members of terrorist group ELN die when they explosives they were carrying detonate.[108]
September 11: Attacks killed 2,997 in a series of hijacked airliner crashes into two U.S. landmarks: the World Trade Center in New York City, New York, and The Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia. A fourth plane, originally intended to hit an unknown, but likely prominent, Washington, D.C. target, crashes in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, after an apparent revolt against the hijackers by the plane's passengers; by Al-Qaeda.
Paris embassy attack plot foiled.
October 1: A car bomb explodes near the Jammu and Kashmir state assembly in Srinagar, India killing 35 people and injuring 40 more.
October 17: Israeli tourism minister Re
It's all more complicated than many people would like to believe.
No, America doesn't have a special right to police the world but this doesn't mean other countries don't have agendas of their own. Blaming Ameirca first is juvenile but so is blind star-spangled patriotism.
Get Real,
I'm sure there is meant to be some meaning to the list you've provided, but I can't find it.
I could waste my time and cut and paste a list of murdered people a mile long.
So what?
Posted by Charles B on May 27, 2007 06:59 PM